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furnished for $4.50 per week. Rooms in the 

 dormitories cost $1.50 or $3.00 per week, 

 according to size. 



In addition to the regular courses of instruc- 

 tion popular lectures will be given, open to the 

 members of the laboratory and the friends of 

 the school. Professor Charles L. Bristol, of 

 New York University ; Smith Ely JellifFe, M. 

 D., of New York ; Dr. George H. Parker, of 

 Harvard University ; Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, of 

 the National Museum, Washington ; Professor 

 Richard E. Dodge, of the Teachers' College, 

 New York, and Mr. D. S. Judge, of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, will be 

 among the lecturers. 



Full courses are ofiered by the following 

 board of instruction : Charles B. Davenport, 

 Ph.D., Harvard University, General Director 

 of the Laboratory ; Professor H. T. Fernald, 

 Ph.D., State College, Pa., instructor in 

 zoology; D. S. Johnson, Ph.D., Johns 

 Hopkins University, instructor in botany ; C. 

 P. Sigerfoos, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 

 assistant in embryology ; Professor W. H. C. 

 Pynchon, Trinity College, instructor in photog- 

 raphy; Nelson F. Davis, Ph.D., Bucknell 

 University, instructor in bacteriology ; Henry 

 R. Linville, Ph.D., New York City High 

 School, assistant in zoology ; Mrs. Gertrude 

 Crotty Davenport, past instructor in Kansas 

 University, instructor in microscopical meth- 

 ods. 



GENERAL. 



Professor James E. Keeler, director of 

 Allegheny Observatory, has been elected by the 

 regents of the University of California director 

 of Lick Observatory, to succeed Professor Ed- 

 ward S. Holden, who recently resigned, after 

 twenty-five years' service. 



The Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Pe- 

 tersburg has awarded its Shubert prize, for the 

 greatest work in theoretical astronomy, to Pro- 

 fessor Simon Newcomb. 



The laboratory of the United States Fish 

 Commission Station at Wood's Holl, under the 

 direction of Professor H. C. Bumpus, has been 

 opened and a number of investigators are al- 

 ready at work. Men of science who wish to 

 carry out research in the laboratory or suggest 



lines of investigation should communicate with 

 the director. 



Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, has been ap- 

 pointed attach^ to the United States Embassy 

 in Berlin. Dr. Stiles's duty will be to keep the 

 Agricultural Department informed on impor- 

 tant discoveries and other matters of interest to 

 agricultural science, to defend American meats, 

 fruits and other exports against unjust dis- 

 crimination, and to advise the Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture from time to time concerning the pu- 

 rity of the food products that are shipped from 

 Germany to the United States. It is said that 

 the appointment of Dr. Stiles will probably be 

 followed by other similar appointments, and it 

 consequently represents an important advance 

 in the application of scientific principles to 

 diplomatic and commercial affairs. 



We regret to record the death, at the age of 

 eighty-one years, of Sir Richard Quain, the emi- 

 nent British physician and writer on medical 

 subjects. 



Me. G. K. Gilbert, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, gave a lecture on the history 

 of the Niagara river at Vassar College on March 

 10th. 



The London Physical Society has elected as 

 honorary members Professor Riccardo Felici, of 

 Pisa, and Professor Emilio Villari, of Naples. 



At its meeting of March 9th the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences elected Albert 

 Heim, of Zurich ; Friedrich von Reckling- 

 hausen, of Strassburg, and Ferdinand Bru- 

 netiere, of Paris, as foreign honorary members. 



Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., has been presented 

 by the Prince of Wales with the Albert medal 

 of the Society of Arts for his services to meteor- 

 ology. 



A complimentary dinner was given in Lon- 

 don on February 26th by his old students and 

 friends to Professor M' Kenny Hughes, to cele- 

 brate the completion of his 25 years' tenure of 

 the Woodwardian professorship of geology at 

 Cambridge. Between 60 and 70 guests, many 

 of them ladies, were present, including, in 

 addition to old students. Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 of the Geological Survey, who presided, and 



